Category: BUCKET LIST

On 12-29-2010 my life changed forever with a cancer diagnosis so of course I made a BUCKET LIST. No, not because I’m dying, but because I’m living. I’m doing well and getting close to being able say complete remission.

Miracles DO happen

Then life kinda got out of control and I forgot about the list. It is time to start thinking about it again make some fun plans.

There are so many things I want to do before I do die, but there never seems to be enough time, money or energy so I’m making a list as I go and changing that. I’m fortunate that I have already done so many things, but there are so many more yet to do! I no longer stress out over the small things and they were right, they are all small things!

– Eat a hangover burger – 12-28-11

– Go to a PRO football game

– Go to a PRO hockey game

– Learn a new hobby

– Finish my novels

– Finish my cookbooks

– Get published

– Go to Vermont/New England and see the changing colors in the fall

– Go to Disneyworld/Epcot Center

– Go to an Olympics

– Get a postcard series of pictures published

– Go white water rafting

– Go Deep Sea Fishing (if only for the pictures)

– Go Parasailing

– Design and publish a quilt pattern

– Travel 1st Class (sort of) 10-7-14 (trip post to follow)

– Move to a new part of the country and start afresh learning new local history

– …

Every time I update this list I will change to the current date to show my progress.

My birthday is in September, but with the weather so hot during that month we waited until October to take a trip for my birthday, not that the weather was that much better. In the “old” days we would take a little trip for each of our birthdays. That all changed with hubby’s last alert, activation and eventual deployment. With the fall out of the VA after that, then my cancer and 5 surgeries we never seemed to get back to the trip around my birthday – something ALWAYS came up. Well, this year we made it.

So for my birthday present from hubby we spent 3 days and 2 nights aboard the historic Queen Mary living in a harbor view first class luxury stateroom with a trip to the Aquarium. I promise a post and lots of pictures soon!

On 12-29-2010 my life changed forever with a cancer diagnosis so of course I made a BUCKET LIST. No, not because I’m dying, but because I’m living. I’m doing well and recovering.Miracles DO happen. Then life kinda got out of control and I forgot about it. It is time to start thinking about it again make some fun plans.

There are so many things I want to do before I do die, but there never seems to be enough time, money or energy so I’m making a list as I go and changing that. I’m fortunate that I have already done so many things, but there are so many more yet to do! I no longer stress out over the small things and they were right, they are all small things!

# 1 – eat a hangover burger – 12-28-11

# 2 – go to a PRO football game

# 3 – go to a PRO hockey game

# 4 – finish my novels

# 5 – finish my cookbooks

# 6 – get published

# 7 – Go to Vermont/New England and see the changing colors in the fall

# 8 – Go to Disneyworld/Epcot Center

# 9 – Go to an Olympics

#10 – Get a postcard series of pictures published

#11 – Go white water rafting

#12 – Go Deep Sea Fishing (if only for the pictures)

#13 – Design and publish a quilt pattern

#14 – Travel 1st Class

#15 – …

Every time I update this list I will change to the current date to show my progress.

2+ years ago, 12-29-10, my life changed forever with an ovarian cancer diagnosis followed by MAJOR surgery and recovery. Then came another surgery for a subsequent problem. Now there is another and bigger medical issue, but I’m coping.

What I am also doing is making a BUCKET LIST. No, not because I’m dying, but because I’m living. I’m doing well considering and I’m recovering.Miracles DO happen.

There are so many things I want to do before I do die, but there never seems to be enough time, money or energy so I’m making a list as I go and changing that. I’m fortunate that I have already done so many things, but there are so many more yet to do! I no longer stress out over the small things and they were right, they are all small things!

# 1 – eat a hangover burger – 12-28-11

# 2 – go to a PRO football game

# 3 – go to a PRO hockey game

# 4 – finish my novels

# 5 – finish my cookbooks

# 6 – get published

# 7 – Go to Vermont/New England and see the changing colors in the fall

# 8 – Go to Disneyworld/Epcot Center

# 9 – Go to an Olympics

#10 – Get a postcard series of pictures published

#11 – Go white water rafting

#12 – Go Deep Sea Fishing (if only for the pictures)

#13 – Design and publish a quilt pattern

#14 – Travel 1st Class

#15 – Take a Mississippi River Steamboat Cruise

#16 – Take a River cruise

#17 – Say what I mean in a nice way and quit sugarcoating it when the person needs to hear the truth.

#18 – Forgive ex, but follow through with WHATEVER it takes to finally get settlement even if it means being ruthless since he was the master manipulator and I was the naive laid back one.

#19 – Appreciate each moment and stop letting fear immobilize me…

#20 – Be kinder…gentler…more sensitive to others… Realize we are all dealing with difficulty…

#21 – Breath more…Talk less…Listen…

#22 – PURGE “items” from my life so my loved ones don’t have to do it later.

Every time I update this list I will change to the current date to show my progress.

I think I’m almost down to 2½ sides…and I’m FINALLY taking back my life… actually CHASING MY LIFE.

IT IS WHAT IT IS!

I'll ALWAYS be 3 Sides of Crazy cooking in OUR Krazy Kitchen at my Savory Kitchen Table and ALWAYS Eating on the Good China but counting down to normal ~ WHATEVER THAT IS!

I love to cook, read, write, quilt, craft, go antiquing, amateur photography and to learn new things. I’m a Jill of many trades & always have more interests and desires than I have time. LOL I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I love being a homemaker and keeping my family healthy and happy.

As a Christian woman I believe life is all about change and that learning to cope with it as it happens will help you through life. I believe in Murphy’s Law, the Domino Effect, Payback’s a Bitch, and Karma. I also believe that Pay It Forward and living by the Golden Rule go a long way to keep the former from happening to begin with. I believe everything happens for a reason and that life is one big adventure.

I try to see life through rose colored glasses and be as tolerant as possible. My glass is always half full. I am an optimist, extremely positive minded and usually a really upbeat person so anything goes within reason.

I especially love to cook and develop new recipes. I have written a couple of cookbooks for family reunions that I’m working on getting published and have new cook books in the works.